Leila Simona Talani: Europe's Migration Crisis Leila Simona Talani is Professor of International Political Economy in the department of European and International Studies since 2014. In 2017 she was awarded a visiting Professorship at the Kennedy School of Government of the University of Harvard. She was also appointed as Jean Monnet Chair of Europe...

Technologies of Empathy, Presented by Timothy Recuber, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication. Politicians from Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama have spoken of the benefits of empathy. Self-help books promote empathy and “emotional intelligence” as a way to improve both family relations and corporate management. And to...

Marc Gopin has more than a decade of experience in conflict resolution in the Middle East. His talk "To Make the Earth Whole: Citizen Diplomacy in an Age of Religious Militancy" will present reflections on that experience, an argument about the importance of citizens diplomacy, and an analysis of the ethics of intervention in conflict zones.